• Persuasion by Jane Austen
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
  
• Notebook

1. We are going to read through the 5 selections (listed above) consecutively.  As you read, write down any impressions or thoughts that may be helpful to you in your life.

2.  In December you are welcome to choose a Christmas literature selection of your choice in addition to finishing The Scarlet Pimpernel.

3. Keep a notebook.  The notebook can be used for thoughts and impressions, summaries, quotes, and more.

“It is very helpful to read with a commonplace book or reading-diary, in which to put down any striking thought in your author, or your own impression of the work, or of any part of it; but not summaries of facts. Such a diary, carefully kept through life, should be exceedingly interesting as containing the intellectual history of the writer; besides, we never forget the book that we have made extracts from, and of which we have taken the trouble to write a short review.” 

• Read Persuasion chapters 1 - 12

• Keep a notebook

• Read Persuasion chapters 13 - 24

• Keep a notebook

• Read Les Miserables - Fantine (Books 1 - 8) Cosette (Books 1 - 2)

• Keep a notebook

• Read Les Miserables - Cosette (Books 3 - 8) Marius (Books 1 - 7)

• Keep a notebook

• Read Les Miserables - Marius (Book 8) Saint-Denis (Books 1 -11)

• Keep a notebook

• Read Les Miserables - Saint-Denis (Books 12 - 15) Jean Valjean (Books 1 - 9)

• Keep a notebook

• Read North and South - Volume 1

• Keep a notebook

• Read North and South - Volume 2

• Keep a notebook

• Read The Keeper of the Bees chapters 1 - 12

• Keep a notebook

• Read The Keeper of the Bees chapters 13 - 23

• Keep a notebook

• Read The Scarlet Pimpernel chapters 1 - 15

• Keep a notebook

• Read The Scarlet Pimpernel chapters 16 - 31

• Read a Christmas literature selection of your choice!

• Keep a notebook